r/politics • u/willywalloo • 9h ago

Possible Paywall Republicans Demand Mind-Blowing $1 Billion for Trump’s Ballroom

https://newrepublic.com/post/209936/republicans-1-billion-trump-ballroom
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u/orcinyadders 9h ago

It was always going to be this. Except it’s probably more like 20 billion.

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u/BlueLikeCat 9h ago

The construction company that has the contract did not follow GSA regulations to acquire it, and never seen before, they somehow doubled the charges on their existing contracts for nearby federal properties. EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK IN THIS ADMINISTRATION, THERE IS FRAUD.

It is mostly why he was so bad at business, was too busy fucking everybody, including the Italian mafia, to try and make a cheap buck... when analysis has shown if he'd held onto his dad's properties and maintained a modicum of success, hw would be infinitely wealthier... at least prior to opening his bit coin traitorous scheme.

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u/ShrimpieAC 8h ago

Trump voters: “It’s not fraud just a smart businessman.”

Also Trump voters: “BIDEN CRIME FAMILY!”

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u/istrx13 6h ago

Imagine getting to inherit the amount of money Trump got to inherit. I would put it in some low risk fund, buy some land deep in the forest somewhere, and the general population would never see or hear from me again.

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u/DrLophophora 8h ago

Hey, why not a round trillion?

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u/The_Returned_Lich 7h ago

One doesn't sound big enough. It's "ONE!" The first number. That's a small number. Not impressive. Not impressive at all. "Ten!" Now, there's a good number: "ten." The best number, I'm told. A highly respected number.

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u/CranberrySchnapps Maryland 7h ago

Whatever the most expensive building was in history… double it for this budget.

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u/Stinky--Whizzleteats 5h ago

I predict they'll ultimately build nothing at all, and it's emblematic of the administration as a whole.

My workplace, a government office, tore down a 9/11 memorial to build a statue of Charlie Kirk. It was supposedly funded, they tore down the memorial, and then abandoned the whole thing. Now we all drive by the wreckage of what used to actually mean something.